By Marcel Creed | 14th May, 2013 | Front page posts, News, Top Stories |
One of the risks of running an educational institution is keeping compliant with government regulations. Every six months, I hear of another college hit with a non-compliance transgression for failing to check their students’ visa status or some other compliance-related More..
By Aileen Macalintal | 14th May, 2013 | Front page posts, News, Top Stories |
Despite the uncertainty of the times and changes to government funding, the planned joint venture of Monash University and the University of Ballarat will go ahead. Monash vice-chancellor Ed Byrne said, “The impact of the government’s announcement is not yet More..
By Antonia Maiolo | 14th May, 2013 | Front page posts, News, Top Stories |
The University of South Australia is staging one of the biggest conversations about its future this month. The only difference is that conversation will take place online. On May 29-30, the university will launch a “unijam”, bringing together thousands of More..
By Antonia Maiolo | 14th May, 2013 | Front page posts, News |
Dozens of IT jobs will go at Monash University after it announced workers will be offered voluntary redundancies. The university alerted staff in its eSolutions division of the planned redundancies, and have identified at least 80 of these workers as More..
By Field Rickards | 14th May, 2013 | News |
It is not difficult to figure out why there has been so much attention devoted to teacher education lately. ATARs for entry to teacher education programs nationally vary widely and the quality of entrants into undergraduate teacher education is steadily More..
By Campus Review | 14th May, 2013 | Front page posts, News |
With more Australians getting a degree, it would be a travesty to turn people off with university cuts. National Tertiary Education Union president Jeannie Rea said this in response to the Universities Australia chair’s address to the National Press Club. More..
By Louis White | 6th May, 2013 | Front page posts, News |
There is an almost alchemical mystery to successful fundraising. So what drives this generosity, and how can institutions create the right conditions for it? By Louis White Since the focus of universities is no longer on simple, regular form letters More..
By Phil Honeywood | 6th May, 2013 | Front page posts, News |
International education is facing many challenges. At the heart of the matter lies a key question: Do we have a crisis of identity? By Phil Honeywood Those of us who work in international education are also unsure of appropriate terminology More..
By Geoff Hanmer | 6th May, 2013 | Front page posts, News |
Science classes at university are on the downward slide but plans are afoot to refresh how the disciplines are taught. By Geoff Hanmer University science subjects in Australia have experienced a long running decline in enrolments relative to other subject More..
By John Mitchell | 6th May, 2013 | Analysis, Front page posts, News, VET |
High hopes for an improved VET quality framework remain unfulfilled. By John Mitchell The initial hopes raised by VET policy papers sometimes fade a little after a second reading. This is the case with regard to the position paper recently More..
By Campus Review | 6th May, 2013 | Front page posts, News |
One of Australia’s leading demographers has told the United Nations that developed countries should give skilled migrants incentives to temporarily return to their home countries. In a keynote address at the 46th session of the UN’s Commission on Population and More..
By Campus Review | 6th May, 2013 | Front page posts, News |
The Gonski report rests on flaws that could undermine it as the base of Australia’s education policy, says a new study. The study, entitled, What’s wrong with the Gonski Report: funding reform and student achievement, released by the Melbourne Institute More..